By Allan Lengel
MSNBC opinion writer Hayes Brown doesn’t mince words when it comes to President-elect Donald Trump’s pick, Kash Patel to take over as. director of the FBI.
Brown writes in a column published Thursday:
“When President-elect Donald Trump announced that Kash Patel will be his nominee for director of the FBI, my reaction wasn’t subtle. In an appearance on MSNBC, I warned that, if confirmed, Patel ‘would be like if you crossed Alex Jones with J. Edgar Hoover.’”
“”It’s an assessment that I stand behind three weeks later, even as Patel’s nomination has failed to garner the same kind of pushback from Republican senators as some of Trump’s other controversial picks. If my comparison comes across as glib or, as one outlet called it, “apoplectic,” it’s because Hoover’s tyranny and similarities to Jones, the conspiracy theorist and former Infowars host, have been downplayed over the decades since his death. It also then fails to acknowledge how much worse Patel is poised to be if given the chance.”
“Patel’s relationship with Trump highlights his talent at endearing himself to the worst people. Patel’s time as a MAGA acolyte began when he was a congressional aide helping to hamper the Russia investigation during the early days of the Trump administration. As a reward, Trump demanded that his staffers find Patel a White House job on the National Security Council.”
